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Elvis Costello - Unloved Songs, Vol. 1 (1979)

Track listing:
  1. Really Mystified 2:08
  2. The Price of Love 3:37
  3. I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself 3:00
  4. I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself 3:20
  5. Stranger in the House 4:04
  6. You Can Call on Me 1:52
  7. I Hear a Melody 2:08
  8. Blue Minute 1:34
  9. (I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea 3:21
  10. Radio, Radio 3:14
  11. Lipstick Vogue 3:49
  12. Pump It Up 2:58
  13. Mighty Man 2:44
  14. Big Brown Eyes 2:39
  15. True Love 2:14
  16. Talk to Me 2:10

Notes


Features demos and/or studio outtakes of some EC compositions, both familiar and unfamiliar, as well as a few cover tunes, all apparently dating from around 1977-1978. The titles listed for the unreleased tunes are only guesses.

Jo Marshall was a New York City-based singer whose acquaintance with EC is described in the mediocre 1981 book ELVIS COSTELLO by Krista Reese. EC wrote two of the songs and lends guitar and backing vocals to the demo tape. (The other songs were written by Jo Marshall, possibly in collaboration with one or more members of her band.)

1. Really Mystified
2. The Price of Love
3. I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself
4. I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself
5. Stranger in the House
6. You Can Call on Me (?) (early version of "Mood for Moderns" with some lyrics that would be used in "Lipstick Vogue")
7. I Hear a Melody (?)
8. Blue Minute (?)
9. (I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea
10. Radio, Radio
11. Lipstick Vogue
12. Pump It Up

Jo Marshall demos, 1979 w/ EC on guitar and backing vocals

13. Mighty Man*
14. Big Brown Eyes
15. True Love*
16. Talk to Me

* written by EC